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Zustand: Good. Good condition. (cities and towns, social conditions, statutes and codes) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket. 1st printing. 468pp 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Printing [Stated]. xii, 468 pages. Occasional footnotes. Figure. Notes. Contributors' Biographies. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price-clipped. Small yellow highlight side marks noted on pages v and vi. James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 - March 2, 2012) was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985-1990), and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT. He was the former president of the American Political Science Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society and Human Rights Foundation. He also was a co-author of a leading university textbook, American Government, and wrote many scholarly books and articles, and op-ed essays. He gained national attention for a 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory in The Atlantic. In 2003, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President George W. Bush. In the late 1970s, Wilson sent some of his students out to explore the politics of regulation - "how goals were determined, conflict resolved or managed, standards set, and policy enforced" - in government agencies in order to test empirically some prominent economic theories - principally "capture" theory - of bureaucratic behavior that Wilson thought were misguided. In the concluding chapter, Wilson more fully develops his theory about the distributional effects of policies that he had explored initially in the final chapter of Political Organizations.…

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